Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Speech transcript at Arab Islamic American Summit ➡️https://t.co/eUWxJXJxbe

Replay ➡️https://t.co/VtmlSqciXx#RiyadhSummit #POTUSAbroad

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2017

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James Comey is quite the creep. What I find hilarious is that he went from villain to hero in the eyes of progressives. The end justifies the means.

Addendum: Please don't say that Comey went from hero to villain in the eyes of conservatives. From the moment he went on national television to describe Hillary Clinton's many crimes (which is unheard of for an FBI Director), I knew that something was wrong with him. I have never viewed him as an upstanding person, much less as a hero. He has always struck me as a grandstander, someone to whom it is very important to appear beyond reproach. In Kantian terms, he wanted to (1) do the right thing, (2) do the right thing for the right reason, and (3) be seen by everyone to be doing the right thing for the right reason. Kant would be appalled by the ostentatiousness of it.

Here are highlights from Stage 14 of the Giro d'Italia. Dutch cyclist Tom Dumoulin, who leads the Giro, has the biggest engine in the professional peloton. Look for him to win several grand tours (including the Tour de France) before his career is over.

Innuendo (1991).

Here is John Derbyshire's ("Derb's") latest column.

I read this report with great interest. Finally, I thought, we would get scholarly confirmation of what everyone sees and hears, every day: the ferocious resistance, by the media, to Donald Trump. For the most part, the report is fair and balanced. We learn, for example, that 93% of the coverage of Trump by CNN that was either positive or negative was negative. Other U.S. news outlets were almost as bad. Even Fox News Channel was 52% negative, but at least that's close to even.

The author's bias began to creep in on page 8, where he wrote, "Although journalists are accused of having a liberal bias, their real bias is a preference for the negative." That misses the point. Are journalists equally negative to members of both parties? Of course not. They're much more negative toward Republicans (conservatives) than toward Democrats (liberals or progressives). The author also (on two occasions) misdescribes Trump's executive order as an "order banning Muslim immigrants." Which order does this? If I remember correctly, no order even mentions Muslims. The author is doing what the federal courts have done, which is distort the executive orders for partisan purposes.

On page 14, the author gets to the important question, to wit: "Have the mainstream media covered Trump in a fair and balanced way?" His answer is spectacularly idiotic: "That question cannot be answered definitively in the absence of an agreed-upon version of 'reality' against which to compare Trump's coverage." In other words, if Trump really is incompetent, vile, dishonest, juvenile, and venal, then the coverage of him by the likes of CNN is fair and balanced, inasmuch as it corresponds to reality. Did the author ever make that point about Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton? One suspects not. This man is so biased that he doesn't even realize he's biased.

Finally, on page 15, the author's bias emerges from the shadows: "Never in the nation's history has the country had a president [viz., Trump] with so little fidelity to the facts, so little appreciation for the dignity of the presidential office, and so little understanding of the underpinnings of democracy." Really? Three names come immediately to mind: Bill Clinton (Oval Office fellatio; "I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"; various other scandals); Barack Obama (bowing to foreign leaders; apologizing for American exceptionalism; returning the bust of Winston Churchill; spying on Americans; "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor; if you like your plan, you can keep your plan"), and Hillary Clinton (Benghazi, sniper fire, the e-mail server, and many, many more).

If you haven't already read the report, don't waste your time. It's a piece of trash, like most academic writing these days.

Addendum: The author does seem to grasp Keith's Law. He writes: "The nation's watchdog [i.e., the press] has lost much of its bite and won't regain it until the public perceives it as an impartial broker, applying the same reporting standards to both parties." (The mixed metaphor is emblematic of the poor quality of the report.)

The current witch hunt against President Donald Trump by the party of “love” and “tolerance” is just that—a witch hunt[.]

And what goes around comes around. Remember that, and that includes the hateful news media and entertainment industry. Your turn is coming, so be prepared.

Phil Stanat, Des Moines

Great to be in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Looking forward to the afternoon and evening ahead. #POTUSAbroad pic.twitter.com/JJOra0KfyR

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2017

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